Pomaderris angustifolia

Pomaderris angustifolia
On Tuggeranong Hill, A.C.T.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Rosales
Family:	Rhamnaceae
Genus:	Pomaderris
Species:	P. angustifolia
Binomial name
Pomaderris angustifolia N.A.Wakef.[1]

Pomaderris angustifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a shrub with linear to narrowly oblong leaves and cream-coloured or yellow flowers.

Description

Pomaderris angustifolia is a shrub that typically grows to a height of 1–2 m (3 ft 3 in – 6 ft 7 in), its foliage covered with greyish, star-shaped hairs. The leaves are linear to narrowly oblong, mostly 7–15 mm (0.28–0.59 in) long and 1.0–2.5 mm (0.039–0.098 in) wide, with stipules 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) long at the base but that soon fall off. The flowers are borne in clusters of two to twenty in leaf axils or on the end of branches and are cream-coloured or yellow, each flower on a pedicel 1–3 mm (0.039–0.118 in) long. The sepals are 1.5–1.8 mm (0.059–0.071 in) long, there are no petals and the style is branched. Flowering occurs from October to November.[2][3]

Taxonomy

Pomaderris angustifolia was first formally described in 1951 by Norman Arthur Wakefield in The Victorian Naturalist from specimens he collected near the "Upper Genoa River" in 1948.[4][5] The specific epithet (angustifolia) means "narrow-leaved".[6]

Distribution and habitat

This pomaderris usually grows in rocky soils in gullies near watercourses and occurs in New South Wales on the ranges south from near Rylstone through the Australian Capital Territory to eastern Victoria as far west as Maffra.[2][3]

References

1. "Pomaderris angustifolia". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 25 December 2021.
2. Harden, Gwenneth J. "Pomaderris angustifolia". Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. Retrieved 25 December 2021.
3. Walsh, Neville G. "Pomaderris angustifolia". Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Retrieved 25 December 2021.
4. "Pomaderris angustifolia". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 25 December 2021.
5. Wakefield, Norman A. (1951). "New species of Pomaderris". The Victorian Naturalist. 68 (8): 141. Retrieved 25 December 2021.
6. Francis Aubie Sharr (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and their Meanings. Kardinya, Western Australia: Four Gables Press. p. 133. ISBN 9780958034180.